As I understand subsidized vs. unsubsidized, yes it is. I can buy the phone without entering into a contract. I can terminate service with VM after 30 days. I can sell the phone to someone else who can choose to buy service from VM or not.
True it isn't unlocked, but I'm not aware of anyone saying unsubsidized == unlocked.
I have the Virgin Mobile LG Optima V, which is $150 now and goes on sale for less periodically. That's $150 unsubsidized and with a month-to-month, no contract plan. It's not the greatest phone in the world but I'm largely satisfied with cost/performance tradeoff.
I disagree, at least in the startup case. In my experience, unless you know the person very well and they have demonstrated that they can deliver what they need to, you're only adding extra headache for yourself. If someone's work is drifting away from what you intend, it's a lot easier to spot that over their shoulder and change courses on the spot rather than wait for code to land in your repo and find out after a lot of time and effort has been wasted.
Maybe they are expecting something more than a worker who can keep in sync with others? If the very small team is the whole company, they may be expecting someone they can brainstorm with at random times without having to get you on Skype. Why would they want to take an extra step to keep you in sync when the rest of the in-office team already is?
Nice! I really appreciate the tone of Tim's post in that it acknowledges both the strengths and weaknesses of NOSQL in general and of Cloudant Search in particular in an honest manner.
In Stonebraker’s opinion, “old SQL (as he calls it) is good for nothing” and needs to be “sent to the home for retired software.” After all, he explained, SQL was created decades ago before the web, mobile devices and sensors forever changed how and how often databases are accessed.
So I'm supposed to use the NYT's custom API to get articles when RSS has, for years, provided a "general" method for me to do the same thing for not only the NYT but millions of other sources?
"Democrats and advocates of civil rights are using the media to further an agenda".
The agenda that America's long record of comparing African-Americans to apes or monkeys, ie sub-human brutes unlike real, white Americans, isn't OK? How terrible!
Googling "black people monkeys" gave me 3.2 million hits. Do I win? "black people apes" rings in at 1.9 million. I just ran "george bush monkey" and only got 2.7m, so I guess I do win the Internet.